“I could have gone to a few other Premiership and Championship clubs as I had interesting offers. The fact I didn’t play for Legia against Celtic wasn’t part of my decision to ask away as that was taken months ago.

“I spoke with the manager at the end of last season and asked if there was any chance of them playing me in the position they signed me for.

“It turned out there wasn’t so I’m very grateful to him for letting me come back to Motherwell.

“Berg understood I wasn’t happy playing out wide and I’m excited to be back at Motherwell.

“I received a nice text from McCall and that helped sway my decision. He knows what I can do and helped me develop as a player.”

McCall, who pitches Ojamaa straight into the squad to face Inverness today, praised his board for pushing the boat out to make the deal happen and is delighted his begging text paid off.

He said: “Henrik didn’t get a look-in against Celtic so I thought Legia may be looking to offload him and it snowballed in the last couple of days.

“I didn’t think we’d have a chance financially so I have to credit the board who have pulled out all the stops.

“There were other Scottish clubs keen to get him. Bigger than ours – Edinburgh-based, north-based.

“Last Tuesday late at night I decided to fire off a text to Henrik. It said, ‘How can you be out there playing on the wing? Come and play here and put a smile on your face.’

“I’ve also learned to put tears and big doggy eyes on texts! He couldn’t have knocked me back after that.”